Within the scope of the European Obesity Week, consultancy of our professors from Istanbul Gelisim University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics Department of Turkish and English were on the field. Asst. Prof. Ayşe Huri ÖZKARABULUT, Lecturer Eda Merve KURTULUŞ, Lecturer Münevver Başak ONAT, Lecturer. Zeynep Şeyda TUT in order to raise awareness of obesity; hold the event named as "Let's Live Healthy, Let's Avoid Obesity" with the cooperation of our department students and Beylikdüzü Municipality.
The aim of the event was to bring the public together with the health science professions and dietitian candidate students from the Turkish and English departments of Nutrition and Dietetics of our university. Detailed body composition analysis, nutritional status and physical activity evaluation of the participants were evaluated throughout the day on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at the Çamlık Activity Area, Beylikdüzü Municipality.
Our university, which takes service to the community and mass education as its mission, took its place in the field to spread the awareness of obesity to a wider part of society. In addition to the evaluated measurements, brochures prepared by our students were delivered to the public people, who showed great participation.
Our 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students in charge of the event took the body composition analysis of the participants, the analysis results were evaluated by our dietician instructors, and the participants’s questions about healthy nutrition were answered in detail. The participants expressed their satisfaction with the event and demanded that such events be repeated under the leadership of our university.
